Unofficial api for Spotify's local web server.
It uses the same method as https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/widgets/spotify-play-button/ does. Basically Spotify desktop runs a web server on 127.0.0.1 that can accept specific commands and even open Spotify client itself.
Spotify domain spotilocal.com that simply points to 127.0.0.1. Apparently in order to bypass browser's limitation of amount of concurrent connection to the same domain they use randomly generated subdomains of spotilocal.com.
Initializes the Spotilocal client. Returns a Promise for Spotilocal client.
play|pause|login|logout|error|ap>, returnAfter?:number)Returns a Promise for Status.
returnOn - Activates long-polling to return when one or more specific event(s) occur.
returnAfter - Defines a timeout. Pass 0 to disable. Default is 0.
Pauses or unpauses current playback. Returns a Promise for Status.
Plays song with uri in provided context.
uri - track uri.
context - of song(where it exists). Examples: playlist uri, album uri and so on.
Returns a Promise for Status.
import {Spotilocal} from 'spotilocal';
const spotilocal = new Spotilocal();
const trackUri = 'spotify:track:3cANM3NuUjRDTi8fdU8P6q';
spotilocal.init().then((spotilocal) => {
return spotilocal.play(trackUri, 'spotify:user:shyyko.serhiy:playlist:4SdN0Re3tJg9uG08z2Gkr1')
}).then((status) => {
console.log(`Playing: ${status.playing}`);
console.log(`Song Name: ${status.track.track_resource.name}`);
return spotilocal.pause(true);
}).catch(console.error);
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Unofficial api for Spotify's local web server.
The npm package spotilocal receives a total of 14 weekly downloads. As such, spotilocal popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that spotilocal demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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